2025 Important Updates: General Conduct Regulations and Anti-Discrimination Regulations
The reason for this message is to communicate some important documentation ahead of this summer.
Updated ECB General Conduct Regulations (and Recreational Conduct Regulations)
ECB General Conduct Regulations 2025
ECB Recreational Conduct Regulations 2025
Guidance Notes Recreational Conduct Regulations
Summary of Changes to GCRs and RCRs for 2025
The purpose of the General Conduct Regulations (the “Regulations”) is to set consistent standards of conduct and behaviour and provide a single set of regulations which can be applied consistently at the top end of recreational cricket. This will ensure that disciplinary matters are dealt with in a fair, efficient and consistent manner by cricket organisations.
All of the competitions and cricket played under the auspices of both the ECB and Wiltshire Cricket are subject to the General Conduct Regulations.
The GCRs are subject to change slight amendments on an annual basis, and so please find attached the updated versions of the regulations for 2025 together with a summary of changes from previous versions.
Please note that there is an abridged version of the GCRs known as the Recreational Conduct Regulations although we are not aware of any competitions in Wiltshire using that set of regulations.
ECB Anti-Discrimination Regulations
ECB Anti-Discrimination Regulations 2025
ECB Anti-Discrimination Regulations Guidance Notes 2025
Anyone that wants to play, watch or be involved at any level of cricket must feel welcome and safe. Cricket has the power to connect people and communities. It is our collective duty to ensure an inclusive environment that allows those connections with our game and its people to thrive.
For 2025, the ECB’s Anti-Discrimination Code (“Code”) has been reintroduced as the Anti-Discrimination Regulations (“Regulations”). The reframing of the Code as Regulations reflects the mandatory obligation on all participants not to discriminate.
The ADRs set out the discriminatory behaviour which could lead to disciplinary action being taken against the offender.
There is a link between the ADRs and the GCRs above, in that in relation to the recreational game, breaches of the Regulations can be sanctioned through the relevant cricket organisation’s disciplinary processes under the General Conduct Regulations or Recreational Conduct Regulations (as applicable).
Please find attached the updated Anti-Discrimination Regulations for 2025, together with a set of guidance notes.
Actions for Clubs:
We are aware that many clubs have done this already, but as an affiliated cricket club you have agreed to adopting the ADRs. Therefore, you need to;
- adopt the Regulations into your own existing rules, and
- implement the Regulations by dealing with breaches through their own disciplinary processes.
